If you are looking for luxury in London you will no doubt wander through the city’s legendary Mayfair district and find yourself melting into scenes played out in films from Merchant and Ivory to Alfred Hitchcock.

Most of us fly from one city to another just hoping to get to some target destination in one piece and with all possessions within a reasonable radius of our promised arrival time. But some of us, more experienced, perhaps, or just a little more adventurous and with a lot more time, travel to get to the points in between.